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Apple Mail Command Execution Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory:	SA27785
Release Date:	2007-11-22
Last Update:	2007-12-18

Critical:	Highly critical
Impact:	System access
Where:	From remote
Solution Status:	Vendor Patch

OS:	Apple Macintosh OS X


CVE reference:	CVE-2007-6165 (Secunia mirror)

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Description: A vulnerability has been reported in Apple Mail, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of unsafe file types in email attachments. This can be exploited via a specially crafted email containing an attachment of an ostensibly safe file type (e.g. ".jpg") to execute arbitrary shell commands when the attachment is double-clicked. This is related to vulnerability #8 in: SA19064 The vulnerability is reported in Apple Mail included in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Solution: Apply Security Update 2007-009. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798 Provided and/or discovered by: Originally discovered in Mac OS X 10.4 and reported in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 by heise Security. Changelog: 2007-11-28: Added link to US-CERT. 2007-12-03: Added CVE reference. 2007-12-18: Updated "Solution" section. Original Advisory: http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/99257 Other References: SA19064: http://secunia.com/advisories/19064/ US-CERT VU#433819: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/433819



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